The Metic Experience of the Black British Writer - Challenging the Margins of African writing

“memetic”这个词最初是由艾略特（T S Eliot）使用的希腊词，翻译成外国人或居住在新国家的外国人，他们的忠诚在祖国和新国家之间分裂。我将这个词改编/扩展到BLACK METIC，以解释英国黑人作家所经历的现象。这是一种理解我身份的方式。1：有没有一个矩阵（文化、社会或政治）让英国黑人梅特人茁壮成长？2：英国黑人与美国黑人的比较是怎样的？通过这种比较可以揭示出什么启示？3：英国黑人Metics对破碎记忆的自传式叙述创造了什么样的新兴诗学？1)我将写一份宣言，定义计量学的理论，并将其与当前关于全球化、流动性和移民研究的研究进行比较。很好的例子是Tim Cresswell的流动性理论和Stuart Hall的移民政治。这是一项重要的研究，因为它建立在文化身份的概念上，并确定了一种新的身份模式，在这种模式下，非洲裔作家将在一个新的批判矩阵中得到进一步的研究。第2集：实地研究通过二十个封闭访谈：我将重点放在美国和英国的四个21世纪的黑人诗歌运动；Dark Room Collective, Dark Noise Collective, Malika’s Kitchen和Cave Canem。这包括对主要文本的仔细阅读和比较分析，结合历史和人类学的描述，以及对作者本人的采访。对来自每个集体的五名metic的采访将被数字化存档。每位诗人将为一本由采访和诗歌组成的弥提克文集贡献三首诗。我希望这次对黑人神秘经历的调查能够打破英国经典的主导故事。我将区分他们如何可能符合Metics的资格，探索四个领域来测试理论，设计一个研讨会，为艺术家提供创造性的策略，以区分他们独特的Metics体验，并发展他们的当代创作实践。档案方法：我必须讨论英国黑人写作，并思考其年代，将上述黑人诗歌运动与20世纪美国和英国过去的运动区分开来。我将通过查阅从20世纪80年代至今的原始资料来分析这些运动。其中一些是在伦敦举行的，如Bogle L'Overture，加勒比艺术家运动，苹果和蛇。4：探索1976年恩德培劫持法航139航班的新诗集。这件事促使我最终离开乌干达。机场在我的作品中帮助我观察等待的生态，作为新生活的门槛和新世界碰撞的地方。这是一种了解时间和出发地点重要性的方法。临终诗是一种处理记忆的方式。我的第一次机场旅行把我从内罗毕（NBO）流放到伦敦（LHR）。原始材料既有个人的，也有政治的。“航站楼诗歌”将使用国际航空运输协会（IATA）的代码作为标题：例如MBA（蒙巴萨国际）和ATL（亚特兰大国际）。纳赛尔·侯赛因的诗集SKY WRI TEI NGS完全由三个字母的机场代码组成。山姆·安德森在《纽约时报》上评论侯赛因的作品时说：“机场代码——我们从登机牌上看到的三个字母、全大写的缩写——是一种笨拙的语言。”宣言和访谈将以教学选集的形式成为学者、作家和一般人的在线资源。为了鼓励公众参与，我将举行一个Metics研讨会，发表一篇关于Metics经验方面的重要论文。我将围绕流亡、克里奥尔化、阈限和破碎的身份展开对话。豪博士和我一样对种族、身份、外来/移民/归属的诗学感兴趣。

The term 'Metic', a Greek word first used by T S Eliot, translates as foreigners or resident aliens whose allegiances are split between their homeland and their new country. I adapted/extended the term to BLACK METIC, to explain the phenomena experienced by black writers in the UK. It is a way of understanding my identity. 1: Is there a matrix (cultural, social, or political) in which the Black British Metics thrive? 2: How do Black British Metics compare to their American counterparts and what insights might be revealed through such comparisons? 3: What emergent poetics are created through the Black British Metics' autobiographical storytelling of fractured memories?Methodology: 4 interlinked sections of research 1) I will write a manifesto and define the theory of Metics and compare it to current research on globalisation, mobility and migration studies. Good examples are Tim Cresswell's Mobility Theory, and Stuart Hall's Migration Politics. This is significant research because it builds on the concepts of cultural identity and identifies a new mode of identity where writers of African descent will be further studied in a new critical matrix. 2: Field-based research via Twenty Metic Interviews: I will focus on four Black poetry movements of the 21st century in the US and UK; Dark Room Collective, Dark Noise Collective, Malika's Kitchen and Cave Canem. This includes close readings and comparative analyses of primary texts, contextualised with historical and anthropological accounts, and interviews with the authors themselves. Interviews with five Metics from each collective will be digitally archived. Each poet will contribute three poems towards a Metics' Anthology comprising interviews and poems. I want this inquiry into the Black Metic Experience to disrupt the dominant story of the British canon. I will distinguish how they might may qualify as Metics, explore four areas to test the theory, devise a workshop offering creative strategies for artists to distinguish their unique Metic Experience and develop their contemporary creative practice.3. Archival Methods: I must discuss Black British writing and think about its chronology, distinguishing between the above Black poetic movements and past movements in the US and UK during the 20th century. I will analyse these movements by accessing primary materials from the 1980s to the present. Some of these are held in London, such as Bogle L'Overture, the Caribbean Artists Movement, and Apples and Snakes.4: New Poetry Collection exploring the 1976 Entebbe hijacking of Air France Flight 139. This event sets into motion my eventual exodus from Uganda. Airports factor in my work helping me to observe the ecology of waiting, acting as thresholds to a new life and a place where new worlds collide. It is a way to navigate the importance of time and points of departure. The terminal poems are a way of dealing with memory. My first airport ride took me into exile from Nairobi (NBO) to London (LHR). The source material is both personal and political.The 'Terminal poems' will use the international Air Transport Association (IATA) codes as titles: for example MBA (Mombasa International) and ATL (Atlanta International). Nasser Hussain's poetry collection SKY WRI TEI NGS is composed entirely of three- letter airport codes. Sam Anderson's New York Times review of Hussain's collection says that 'Airport codes - the three-letter, all-caps abbreviations we know from our boarding passes - are awkward little knuckles of language'. The Manifesto and interviews will be an online resource for academics, writers and the general in the form of a teaching anthology. To encourage public engagement I will hold a Metics symposium, publishing a critical paper on aspects of the Metic Experience. I will open up conversations around exile, creolization, liminality and fractured identity. Dr Howe's shares my interest in the poetics of race, identity foreignness/migration/belonging.